Sources and Methods in African History (eBook, ePUB)

Spoken Written Unearthed
Redaktion: Falola, Toyin; Jennings, Christian

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An overview of the ongoing methods used to understand African history.

Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of specialization. The rate of incorporation of new sources and methods into African historical research shows no signs of slowing.

This book is both a snapshot of current academic practice and an attempt to sort through some of the problems scholars face within this unfolding web of sources and methods. The book is divided into five sections, each of which begins with a short introduction by a distinguished Africanist scholar. The first section deals with archaeological contributions to historical research. The second section examines the methodologies involved in deciphering historically accurate African ethnic identities from the records of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The third section mines old documentary sources for new historical perspectives. The fourth section deals with the method most often associated with African historians, that of drawing historical data from oral tradition. The fifth section is devoted to essays that present innovative sources and methods for African historical research.

Together, the essays in this cutting-edge volume represent the current state of the art in African historical research.

Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Christian Jennings is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782047544
• Artikelnr.: 45723685

Autorenporträt

Toyin Falola, Christian Jennings

Inhaltsangabe

Section Introduction: Archaeology and History - James Denbow Trouble with
Siblings: Archaeological and Historical Interpretation of the West African
Past - Christopher DeCorse Trouble with Siblings: Archaeological and
Historical Interpretation of the West African Past - Gerard Chouin Material
Culture and Cadastral Data: Documenting the Cedarberg Frontier, South
Africa, 1725-1740 - Laura J. Mitchell Chronology, Material Culture, and
Pathways to the Cultural History of Yoruba-Edo Region, 500 B.C.-A.D. 1800 -
Akin Ogundiran For Trinkets Such as Beads: A Revalorization of Khoisan
Labor in Colonial South Africa - Edwin Wilmsen Section Introduction:
Methodology through the Ethnic Lens: The Study of Atlantic Africa - Paul
Lovejoy Pathways to African Ethnicity in the Americas: African National
Associations in Cuba during Slavery - Matt Childs Slave Trade Nomenclature
and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Evidence from Early Eighteenth
Century Costa Rica - Russell Lohse Africa in Louisiana: In Search of
"Bambara" and Creole Identities in Literary and Statistical Sources - Kevin
Roberts Section Introduction: New Approaches to Documentary Sources -
Thomas Spear They Called Themselves Iloikop: Rethinking Pastoralist History
in Nineteenth Century East Africa - Christian Jennings Interpreting Cases,
Disentangling Disputes: Court Cases as a Source for Understanding
Patron-Client relationships in Early Colonial Lagos - Kristin Mann
Capricious Tyrants and Persecuted Subjects: Reading Between the Lines of
Missionary Records in Precolonial Northern Namibia - Meredith McKittrick
Section Introduction: Oral Tradition: Classic Questions, New Answers -
Dennis Cordell Narratives on Pilgrimmages to Mecca: Beauty versus History
in Mandé Oral Tradition - Jan Jansen Kingship and the Mediators of the
Past: Oral Tradition and Ritual Performance in Nupeland, Nigeria -
Constanze Weise Passages in a Struggle over the Past: Stories of Maji Maji
in Njombe, Tanzania - James Giblin Maisha: Life History and the History of
Livelihood along the TAZARA Railway in Tanzania - Jamie Monson Section
Introduction: Innovative Sources and Methods - David Henige Ben and Maggie:
Consuming Data: Reassessing Scientific and Anthropological Evidence:
Historical Perspective on Nutrition Studies - Cynthia Brantley Electricity
Networks in Africa: A Comparative Study, or How to Write Social History
from Economic Sources - Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch "Rain or Shine We
Gonna' Rock": Dance Subcultures and Identity Construction in Accra, Ghana -
Steven J. Salm Sample Surveys: Underexploited Sources for African Social
History - Dennis Cordell